Amer Romantic & Trancend Lit

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An in-depth study of the writers associated with the Transcendentalism and the social reform movements they inspired, including abolition, women's suffrage, labor reform, and projects of associated living. Authors considered include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. A variety of critical and creative writing assignments will provide opportunities for us to reflect on how matters of race, gender, class and ethnicity continue to affect perceptions of democracy today.